This most popular, fun packed specialised workshop is a great introduction to Commedia or a brilliant refresher for experienced practitioners.

Participants will actively explore how to bring a variety of stock characters without masks through text based interpretation and the use of key commedia conventions such as lazzi, concetti and actor-audience relationship.

Participate in this highly energetic and physical workshop through a hands-on investigation of the main stock characters of Commedia Dell Arte.

This intensive workshop provides participants with an essential foundation of Stanislavsky’s acting system. Participants will work through a practical exploration and process of creating, interpreting and performing character.

Areas covered include key acting techniques and skills such as Action, the Magic If, Objectives, Verbal and Non-verbal modes of communication to assist in creating, interpreting characters and developing performing scene work.

Our popular workshop gives participants the opportunity to explore one of the giants of modern theatre, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and his principles of a ‘new theatre’ that came to include his now famous biomechanics.

Areas covered include a practical introduction to actor training via the use of Biomechanics and Etudes for solo, partner and ensemble work focusing on character and scene interpretation, rehearsal and performance.

This innovative workshop explores Kabuki performance conventions through a practical exploration and understanding of Japanese performance and culture. Included in this workshop are Kabuki character performance demonstrations by Goran Banyai.

Learn key characters through a series of kata sequences that will provide you with the skills of making and performing this traditional theatre, as well as practical techniques for making, interpreting and presenting modern theatre.